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And now we see why Shibest was searching for a punter. The safety was more dumb luck than anything. Hopefully he bounces back because field position will be important vs. Tennessee
Butch Jones wants to get with the times and change Smokey's name to Vapey.
French how vanilla was or offensive game plan this past week? Alia do you think they were working on the long ball or do we expect shots like that alll the time?
Also the offense ran for 200+ yards with 10 different people. Should we expect the running game to be distributed like that all the time?
Thanks in advance!
Butch Jones learned to ride a horse from Cavman.
On a positive side, his bad punts were still at least 35 yards and allowed no return due to the hang time.
Question for French. I think in your preseason review, you mentioned that at Memphis they always ran towards the side with the full back. I tried to pay attention at the game, but you know...
In your film review, did we always run to Peoples side?
I stand with Sam.
He may not have elite speed, but I like how he carried a few tacklers for tough yards on several plays.
Great write up, was excited to see it posted when I woke up!
I watched the replay last night and tried to pay attention to a few things with my untrained eye:
1. I really wasn't impressed with Peoples' blocking. There were a few plays where he either just didn't know who to block or just did it poorly.
2. Same with Conte, there was a play in the first quarter where he completely lets a defender run by him. At times he was so bad at blocking, I'm unsure how he passed Kindergarten.
3. The run game was a bit worrisome to me. I dislike Rogers at tailback in general and think his purpose should be in the pass game. He doesn't seem to do well with contact and goes down pretty easily when the contact isn't directly head on.
4. McMillian also went down to contact rather easily. I know the blocking was poor on a lot of plays, but a truly great college running back makes plays one-on-one and he didn't really do that.
5. Excited for Shai to get back into the swing of things. Admittedly, he got lost in the excitement of McMillian for me, but it is easy to see why he was a top recruit and record breaking high school star. I think he gets bulk carries sooner rather than later.
6. Not much to say about Ford. He is a monster and will break so many records here at VT. Let's hope we make the most of his last year here.
6. Bucky showed himself as the redzone threat he is. But I was disappointed that we didn't get him involved more in the pass game. I don't think there was a single time he was thrown to and let him use his size to high point it. Although, I don't know if that is a good idea, but to me it seems like an advantage we should utilize.
7. Evans looked good to me. I like his athleticism and especially like his ability to extend plays and throw on the run. He had only one play over the middle I think? The catch by Ford, so it will be interesting to see if we expand into that area of the field as time progresses. I was worried by some of his passes to Ford. At times it looked like he was just lofting it up and hoping Ford would catch it based on who he is. Against better corners I see those throws as 50/50 balls that will lead to many INTs. After seeing TD throws again though I was very impressed. They were placed perfectly so that only the receivers could make plays on them. That was great.
8. The defense I honestly didn't pay as much attention to. They held firm all game really and only got beat a few times. Ekanem seemed to tackle poorly at times and let the player slip away. Motu, while not being a playmaker, was a very sure tackler. I liked that a lot. The Edmunds bros are awesome. So happy that they are doing so well.
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# | Just when you think its not as fun to see UVa keep losing, remember stuff like this... 
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9 years 10 months
# | Just when you think its not as fun to see UVa keep losing, remember stuff like this... That would be hilarious I need a video stat
we need this on a loop with "I threw it on the ground" playing in the background:
I understand that. My point is that he's saying that because he's not going to tell us what is happening in that situation and the answer he's giving allows the questions to move along. Grilling him about it is a waste of time and accomplishes nothing except antagonizing a coach who clearly doesn't want to speak on the issue.
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# | Just when you think its not as fun to see UVa keep losing, remember stuff like this... 
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# | Just when you think its not as fun to see UVa keep losing, remember stuff like this... I couldn't be happier Mendenhall is running that program. London worried me, he seemed like he consistently recruited some great players and they fought hard for him on the field, regardless of results. Mendenhall seems like an average High School coach, and the players don't seem to be taking to his bizarre methods.
I anticipate Mendenhall having an awful couple of years, before ultimately being replaced by a much better coach.
Sounds like a fullback
Keep spreading the DBU gospel brother!
Gosh I hope that isn't the case. These aren't 5 years olds out here where they need that negative punishment to learn. If he has problems with attitude or something else, just suspend him to drive that point ome, I don't like teh pussy-footing around though.
I was just happy that of the eleventy pre-snap penalties the other day there wasn't a single one on us.
But yes, the lack of prairie dogging it out there was good, too
It was said.in another thread he missed a practice. #sauces
I was happy at no going to the line and then all the heads turning to the sideline like lemmings.
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# | Just when you think its not as fun to see UVa keep losing, remember stuff like this... Funny, taking a peak at le sabre, most guys over there seem to be blaming this loss on London.
I noticed that we have our best winning percentage since leaving the Horseshoe.
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# | Just when you think its not as fun to see UVa keep losing, remember stuff like this... In all fairness, they need to give Bronco more time. It is hard to be worse than London after only one game.
Any word on how he liked the game this past weekend?
I'd like to see all our punts bounce forward, personally.